![]() ![]() Curling Drive, was built partly through a $122,000 grant (nearly $1.3 million today) from the Federal Civil Defense Agency. The two-story Boise Bomb Shelter, which can still be found at 600 W. They worried the Idaho Falls laboratory and the Mountain Home Air Force Base could make Idaho an enemy target. The Statesman attributed the choice to a “handful of young fathers in Highlands (who) began pestering” the federal government. ![]() Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization chose Boise as the site of the country’s first community nuclear fallout shelter in 1960, which would serve as a prototype for future civil defense shelters across the United States, a Statesman article reported at the time. But as America carried memories of the atomic bombings of Japan and fears of a Cold War attack, others worried nuclear advancement would lead to disaster. Many saw nuclear as the gateway to an exciting future. | Idaho National Laboratory IDAHO GETS COUNTRY’S FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND NUCLEAR FALLOUT SHELTER Johnson holds one of the light bulbs that were the first in the world to be lit by nuclear energy. The short-lived event lasted for just an hour in the dead of night, but even today, a sign above city hall still brags that Arco was “the first city in the world to be lit by atomic power.” Idaho scientists made history again in 1955 when they lit the entire town of Arco using nuclear energy. RELATED | An experiment that changed the modern world forever ![]()
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